Director: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Writer: Ed Gass-Donnelly
Producer: Aaron Poole, Ed Gass-Donnelly, Lee Kim
Cast: Kristin Booth, Aaron Poole, Noam Jenkins, Caroline Cave, Stuart Hughes

Friday night in Toronto 's lower west end. Chatter from a dinner party in Harry and Carol's nouveau riche condo drifts through an open balcony door, as two freebase cokeheads, Pretty and Johnny, have a party on their own in the alley below. As the dinner guests leave, the hostess is nowhere to be found. Until, a wet thud and a sharp scream rise up to the balcony. Pretty stares in horror at Carol's body, splayed on the alley floor, as Harry screams for help from above. The sharp burst of police sirens sends the cokeheads running as Peter, a middle aged police officer, sprints from his cruiser to check Carol's vitals. Rocket forward three months and these five disparate lives begin to cataclysmically intersect through weaving multi-narrative story arcs that release spurts and geysers of long-suppressed sexuality and aggression.

Director: Eric Nazarian
Writer: Eric Nazarian
Producer: Lynnette Ramirez, Brian Knappmiller
Cast: Alyssa Milano, Clarence Williams III, Derrick O'Connor, Yorick van Wageningen and Emily Rios

An ensemble drama about several strangers living in the Los Angeles Riverbed Community weave their stories of loss and hope, not knowing that their lives have brushed up against each others in small but profound ways.

Director: Mary Stuart Masterson
Writer: Jayce Bartok
Producer: Jesse Scolaro, Allen Bai, Darren Goldberg, Elisa Pugliese
Cast: Bruce Dern, Elizabeth Ashley, Kristen Stewart, Aaron Stanford, Jayce Bartok

The Cake Eaters' is a quirky, small town, ensemble drama that explores the lives of two interconnected families coming to terms with love in the face of loss. Living in rural America, The Kimbrough family is a normally odd bunch; Easy, the patriarch and local butcher, is grieving over the recent loss of his wife, Ceci, while hiding a secret ongoing affair for years; Beagle, his youngest son who was left to care for his ailing mother, works in the local high school cafeteria by day but has a burning passion inside that manifests itself through painting street signs; and the eldest son, Guy, has been away from the family for years while pursuing his rock star dream in the big city until the day he learns of his mother's passing and that he's missed the funeral. Upon Guy's return home, relationships between the characters begin to unravel; Beagle's pent up emotions connect with Georgia Kaminski, a terminally ill teenage girl wanting to experience love before it's too late; Easy's long time affair with Marg, Georgia's eccentric grandmother, is finally exposed to the Kimbrough children; and Guy discovers that, in his absence, his high school sweetheart, Stephanie, has moved on and started a family of her own. Through it all, The Kimbroughs and Kaminski's manage to establish a new beginning in the face of their greatest fears.

Director: Dylan Reynolds
Writer: Dylan Reynolds
Producer: Dylan Reynolds
Cast: Mark Irvingsen, Jim Storm, Luciano Rauso, Yassmin Alers, Jody Jaress

A character driven drama from first time writer / director Dylan Reynolds, Chain Link deals with a world where there is no simple right and wrong, good or evil; where people are faced with regrets, moral choices, immoral certainties, and ultimately fate. Chain Link is a film about a man searching for love and redemption. Recently released from prison he takes steps towards a better life and a family he has always desired. But circumstances compel him to resort back to a life of crime affecting the ones he loves. This time he may not have a second chance.

Director: Luke Eberl
Writer: Luke Eberl
Producer: Karuna Eberl, James McLean, Andrew McFarlane, Aaron Himelstein
Cast: Steven Weber, Alex Linz, Escher Holloway

Fifteen-year-old Owen Norris is at the top of his graduating middle-school class, and wants to know how the world works. He has no friends, spends almost all of his time studying, and has an almost nonexistent relationship with his white-collar parents, whom he sees for ten minutes a day. But his boring suburban life changes when he meets Congressman Lawrence Connor and his young nephew Caleb. As Caleb and Owen become close friends, Connor offers Owen a chance to learn how the world of politics really works by acting as his “youth campaign spokesman” for the upcoming Senate primaries. What starts as a fun way to make some extra summer cash takes a dark turn as Owen learns the frightening truth about the deranged secret world of politics in which he is now involved in.

Director: Tom Hines
Writer: Michael Kamsky
Producer: Lauri LaBeau, David Scharf
Cast: JR Bourne, Emily Wagner, Jeffrey Scott Jensen, Alice Drummond, Dan Butler, Paul Dooley

Truman Korovin is a lonely, sharp-witted cab driver in Fairbanks, Alaska. The usual routine of picking up fares and spending his nights at his favorite bar, the Boatel, is disrupted when his girlfriend Emily dumps him on one of the coldest nights of the year. An acid trip seems like a good idea to help numb the pain, but when the trip goes sour, Truman winds up in the local ‘loony bin' on what looks like a suicide attempt. During his stay, Truman spends time with an issue-laden therapy group where he gets re-acquainted with one of his old cab fares, a local stripper named Eleanor. He also befriends Elizabeth, an amusing old lady from the Seniors Home, as part of his therapy. Although his trip to the bin seems like a brief detour in his life, world, but it's a new one; and the emotionally detached Truman finds himself right in the middle of it. At a point in his life when Truman was ready to be a spectator, he may just find himself caring enough to get back in the game.

Director: Rubens Rewald, Rosanna Foglia
Writer: Rosanna Foglia, Rubens Rewald
Producer: Rubens Rewald
Cast: Leonardo Medeiros, Chris Couto, Rejane Arruda, Louise Cardoso, Regiane Alves,

São Paulo, today. Bones are found in an anonymous grave and sent to the morgue. The coroner Artur deals with actresses and extremists. A body gets preserved for more than thirty years. An identity is searched… The film treats the body as a political and erotic object and also as the major instance of our own identity. What characterizes an identity? Could it be a name? The blood ties? The feeling of being part of a nation? Or merely an ID card? Could it be a body or an attitude? What is the destiny of ideas? Of the bodies? Could a chain of ideas and values end at a common grave, disappearing without a trace? These questions are the dramatic essence of the film. BODY intends to approach History in a different way, not as a reconstitution of the facts, but as a remainder in the contemporary time, something still to be solved.

Director: Rick Bieber
Writer: Brent Boyd, Jason Ehlers, Rick Bieber
Producer: Rick Bieber
Cast: Waylon Payne, Ali Larter, Lane Garrison

Inspired by legendary guitar player Hank Garland, Crazy is a story of musical genius, passion, and betrayal. Emerging from the Nashville in the 50's, Hank had established his brilliant playing in country, rock and jazz. But his adversarial relationship with the Nashville Mob - those who controlled the music industry - caused him to be seen as a trouble maker. From fighting for artist's rights, to bringing black, jazz musicians into the restricted, southern music culture, Hank refused to compromise his pursuit for excellence. However, it may have been his tempestuous relationship with his beautiful wife, Evelyn, which led to his final demise. After surviving a car crash, Hank was subjected to electro-shock treatments which tragically ended his career at the age of 31.

Director: Angeliki Antoniou
Writer: Angeliki Antoniou
Producer: Angeliki Antoniou, Jost Hering, Kostas Lambropoulos
Cast: Adrian Aziri, Eshref Durmishi, Gazmend Gjokaj, André Hennicke, Edi Mehana

Based upon true events. Eduart, a young man raised in a cruel and oppressive family environment, leaves Albania with the dream of becoming a rock star and living a better life. His reckless character and the passions of his youth lead him to commit a murder in Athens. Chased by everyone, even by his own self, he is imprisoned under the harshest conditions. Eduart, with the help of a German doctor, learns to feel sympathy for others and guilt for his crime. His deep remorse will lead him from darkness to light. Like the Dostoevskian hero Raskolnikov, Eduart passes from crime to punishment, by daring to admit his guilt. In international criminal history, the "Eduart case" occurs once in a hundred years.

Director: Richard Dutcher
Writer: Richard Dutcher
Producer: Richard Dutcher
Cast: Richard Dutcher, Virginia Reece

Writer/Director Richard Dutcher stars as L.A. videographer Eric Boyle, who stumbles across a brutal gang killing and makes a small fortune from the footage. As his marriage to an ambitious actress disintegrates, Eric finds himself an unwitting target of the killers, who seek to end his life for exposing their crimes to the world.

Director: Zackary Adler
Writer: John Bell
Producer: Marc Lieberman, Barry Sisson, Tim Estep, Bruce Heller, Scott LeGrand
Cast: Shawn Hatosy , DJ Qualls , Cameron Richardson, Ann Dowd, Nikki Reed, Tom Bower

Familiar Strangers is an off beat – funny – heartfelt story of a family going through the natural process of negotiating the changing relationships between parents and children, especially as those children grow into adulthood. The film follows the Worthingtons through a four-day Thanksgiving gathering. Through the conflict and communication that occur, the Worthington family members find their way to the friendship and love that we all hope can exist between parents and their adult children.

Director: Tao Ruspoli
Writer: Tao Ruspoli, Jeremy Fels
Producer: Nat Dinga
Cast: Shawn Andrews, Olivia Wilde, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Tao Ruspoli, DeDee Pfeiffer

Racing across Los Angeles in one day, documentary filmmakers Bella and Millo go from a suburban police station in Calabasas, through Beverly Hills to Watts, and places in between, to get Milo's brother Leo from jail to rehab before 8 pm, or Leo goes to prison for three years.

Director: Michael Worth
Writer: Michael Worth
Producer: Kassi Crews
Cast: Margot Farley, Michael Worth, John Saxon, Mitzi Kapture

God's Ears is a story about an erotic dancer, Alexia, who falls in love with a man with autism, Noah. On the face of it, this plot line might seem like a movie that's tapped into the exponential rise in autism. However, this story, brilliantly written and directed by Michael Worth, touches deftly upon issues of women, self-esteem, and the isolating conditions of people in two completely different but equally hidden worlds--the hidden world of sex workers and the less hidden world of people with autism.

Alexia, working as an exotic dancer, her perspective on men soured by her job, can't seem to find her way out. When she encounters Noah in a restaurant, he can barely look at her, not because she's beautiful, and she is, but because it's simply just too painful to gaze upon a face, any face. His autism, though seen as a handicap by others, is the condition that causes him to "see" Alexia not as a sex object, but as she wishes to see herself--as good and worthy to be loved just as she is. He captures her attention and her heart. It would seem an unlikely meeting, but Worth creatively draws the parallels of human loneliness and longing that bring these two people together in an unforgettably touching story of the heart.

Director: Daniel Dávila
Writer: Cliff Traiman, Daniel Dávila, Karim Ahmad
Producer: April Dávila, Catherine Dávila, Karim Ahmad, Daniel Dávila
Cast: Martin Landau, Octavio Gómez Berríos, Melora Walters, Krista Ott, Diane Baker, Brandon O'Neil Scott

In San Francisco 's poverty-stricken Tenderloin district, would-be artist Ricardo Papa is trying to make ends meet as a petty drug dealer.  On the run from his boss and on the outs with his girlfriend, he takes up residence in the dilapidated Hotel Boyd. There he crosses paths with thirteen-year-old Lattie Flemming who charms Ricardo with her fearless and beguiling attitude.  As they grow closer, Ricardo learns that Lattie's mother, Margo, is trapped in an abusive relationship the puts mother and child in jeopardy. When Ricardo desperately presses to make good on a deal gone bad, he encounters another of the Boyd's residents, Harrison Montgomery. Ricardo discovers that this aging recluse has a secret – a secret that could solve all of Ricardo's problems.  With his boss closing in, and Margo and Lattie on the ropes, Ricardo is forced to choose between saving himself, and saving his only friends.

Director: Marc Bisaillon
Writer: Marc Bisaillon
Producer: Christine Falco, Marc Bisaillon
Cast: Denis Trudel, Helene Florent, Geneviève Rioux

La Lacheté (Cowardice) is a psychological thriller that tells the sordid love story between Conrad, an unhappily married gravedigger, and Madeleine, a prostitute who dreams of a better life. Obsessed by Madeleine, Conrad becomes deeply conflicted when he learns that she is planning, with her pimp, the kidnapping of a young girl from a rich family. The plan goes sour and Conrad realizes that his mistress has taken care that all the evidence leads to the cemetery where he works. Despite this, his love for her is too strong. Paralyzed, he becomes accessory to a crime he never could have imagined. Abandoned by his family, deceived by Madeleine, disgusted with the ease of his complicity, how far will Conrad go to free himself from the self-loathing that is destroying his soul? Loosely based on a true story that shocked Canadians in the early 1960s, La Lacheté shows how a man, who could have had a quiet life, slowly spirals into madness, imprisoned by his lack of courage and the remorse that overwhelms him.

Director: Brennan Howard
Writer: Brennan Howard
Producer: Brennan Howard, Ginger Henson
Cast: Rhomeyn Johnson, Rob Arbogast, Brian lally, Danny Molina, Drew Richards

Heavyweight boxing champ, Sonny Liston, and jazz trumpeter/crooner, Chet Baker, are the inspiration for LOW, a black comedy drama set in December, 1970. The film focuses on these two tragic icons at the lowest point in their lives; both on the run from their broken dreams to find refuge in a rundown desert motel. Strangers to each other initially, the Boxer and Musician are destined to bond for a lost weekend of booze, drugs, and murder. Seemingly opposite in terms of the worlds they come from, both men couldn't be more simpatico when it comes to the denial of their self-destruction, and the mutual hope that the answer to their problems lies somewhere out there...in Amsterdam.

Director: Darrell Roodt
Writer: Donald A. Barton, Ivan Milborrow, Michael D. Sellers
Producer: Danold A. Barton, Michael D. Sellers, Anton Ernst, Richard Finney, Kerry Gregg, Luke Vitale
Cast: Melissa Leo, Joey Dedio, Lisa-Marie Schneider, Russel Savadier, Kyle Siebert

An American mother receives word that her drug addled son has been kidnapped by a drug lord operating in South Africa

Director: Ezra Krybus, Matthew Miller, Sascha Drews
Writer: Ezra Krybus, Matthew Miller, Sascha Drews
Producer: Nicholas Tabarrok
Cast: Alysha Aubin, Candice Mausner, Morgan McCunn, Stephannie Richardson,

Steph and her three teenage friends become lost in the wilderness after the death of their guide, Jonah. To make matters worse, Jonah is Steph's older brother and she refuses to leave his body behind. What ensues is a harrowing story of survival, as four young girls must brave the elements, learning to overcome their differences and personal obstacles in order to make it out of a rugged and unforgiving wilderness alive. But will they survive? Will they manage to find their way back?

Director: Kari Skogland
Writer: Kari Skogland
Producer: Elizabeth Jarvis, Kari Skogland, Phyllis Laing
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Christine Horne, Cole Hauser, Ellen Page, Sheila McCarthy

Getting old isn't for sissies! The witty, irascible and fiercely proud Hagar Shipley escapes from home when her son Marvin and daughter in law Doris tell her she must move into nursing care. She sets out on a preposterous journey in search of a way to reconcile herself to her tumultuous past. Vulnerable to an aging brain, it becomes hard for Hagar to differentiate past from present and we come to know her as the passionate and rebellious bride in a remote prairie town whose proud father disowns her when she marries the "wrong sort". Struggling to get to the safe haven of an abandoned house she remembers near the ocean, Hagar can't stop from reflecting on how her sprawling life was full of twists and joys denied.

Director: Helen Hunt
Writer: Helen Hunt, Alice Arlen, Victor Levin
Producer: Pamela Koffler, Katie Roumel, Connie Tavel, Christine Vachon
Cast: Helen Hunt, Colin Firth, Bette Midler, Matthew Broderick, Lynn Cohen, Ben Shenkman

A New York schoolteacher hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband leaves, her adoptive mother dies and her real one, an eccentric talk show host, materializes and turns her life upside down as she begins a courtship with the father of one of her students.

Director: Henry Barrial
Writer: Henry Barrial
Producer: Mark Stolaroff, Ron Judkins
Cast: Andrea Helene, Mercedes Brito, Randall Batinkoff, Suzy Cote, Val Lauren

Love hurts! What is it about men and women when it comes to relationships? Are we always doomed to repeat our mistakes? Is the whole enterprise of love and companionship just set up for failure? Can true love, if there is such a thing, overcome gender foibles? "True Love" explores the lives of six interconnected Angelinos as they struggle with issues of honesty, trust, communication, maturity, fidelity and perseverance. Is there even a chance for success in a world where the men are so un-evolved and the women so compelled to hang on?

Director: Peter Duncan
Writer: Peter Duncan
Producer: Cathy Overett, Anton Smit
Cast: William McInnes, Monic Hendrickx, Milo, Bille Brown, Christopher Sommers, David Field

When Tahmeena (Monic Hendrickx) stumbles onto John's (William McInnes) isolated farm, he has no choice but to take her in. An illegal refugee, she's been badly beaten and speaks no English. Still mourning the death of his wife, John doesn't welcome visitors but he waits for Tahmeeena to heal so he can send her on her way. So begins a reluctant voyage of mutual discovery as these two strangers learn to communicate and connect. But eventually the men who think they own Tahmeena come looking for her? and they won't leave without her. Based on the Golden Globe-nominated Dutch film The polish bride, Unfinished sky peels away layers of hurt and mistrust to reveal the beauty of freedom, hope and choice.

Director: Thomas McCarthy
Writer: Thomas McCarthy
Producer: Michael London, Mary Jane Skalski, Jeff Skoll
Cast: Richard Jenkins, Hiam Abbass, Haaz Sleiman, Danai Gurira

Walter, a college professor travels to New York to attend a conference and finds a young couple living in his apartment. He ends up befriending them, especially Tarek, a Syrian street musician. But Tarek is profiled by the police at a subway station and incarcerated, becoming subject to imminent deportation. When Tarek's widowed mother appears, Walater's connection to this family in distress deepens and his narrowed horizons expand.